Paultown sounds better

Paulchiks.. Paulsheviks...

Hm? Oh, just thinking of more names for supporters of Ron Paul


Anyways, look! It's Paulville!

The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.

This is one of those things that has bugged me a lot about Libertarianism lately. Something that is so unappealing to me about it. The idea of “dropping out” is just the antithesis of genuine liberty. Do you not want liberty for everyone? Not that you care about anything Bakunin ever said... he consorted with Marx, after all
[hm can't seem to find the source for this quote but Eugene attributes it to Bakunin and that's good enough for me, I mean if Bakunin didn't really say it, it doesn't matter]
No man can emancipate himself, except by emancipating with him all the men around him. My liberty is the liberty of everyone, for I am not truly free, free not only in thought but in deed, except when my liberty and my rights find their confirmation, their sanction, in the liberty and the rights of all men, my equals.

“dropping out” is a bit like “Socialism In One Country”

Okay but this is the really funny part:

The process is forming a co-op of people buying shares in the community and these people would be granted land use at a minimum of 1 acre per share, for as long as they homesteaded the land. The community would be privately held by the co-op to establish private property for the general community thus preserving the community is 100% freedom and liberty lovers.

A co-op? What? Co-op implies democracy. I thought Libertarians weren't big on the whole democracy thing. Additionally, as is admitted, the land is only granted to the members of the co-op, it isn't actually owned by the individuals, it's just granted by the community. This is like those geoist communities except you to keep your economic rent. I think that's what goes on here..

The community votes on all community efforts, such as utilities etc. However no one is forced to consume these utilities and or pay for them, AKA people can be off grid on their share of land. This is in line with the ideals that you're free to live your life the way you want and not be forced to do or pay for other people's life styles you may not agree with.

No one is forced to consume these utilities and or pay for them

No, I have better things to do than to make fun of these people..

No what was my interest here:

1. Genuine liberty of the individual is dependent on the liberty of others

2. Collective decision making is important... or something I don't know where I was going with that

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Update: Ron Paul does not support Paulville, says his supporters should “spread out and be as pervasive as possible”
Update again: aaaaand paulville.org is dead. Ashamed of Glorious Leader's reaction? Hrm...